Police say a western Illinois couple died at a hospital hours after a sheriff’s deputy pulled them from a farm pond following an apparent ice fishing accident.

Democrats approve revised 2024 presidential primary schedule replacing Iowa with South Carolina as leadoff voting state.

Democrats are poised to drastically reorder their presidential primary schedule beginning next year, replacing Iowa with South Carolina in the leadoff spot as part of a larger overhaul meant to empower Black and other minority voters critical to its base of support.

Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were sold.

Another giant lottery prize is up for grabs.

A continuing care home in suburban Des Moines is being fined $10,000 after a funeral home discovered a woman sent to it in a body bag was alive.

Bitter divisions dominated a recent national Republican Party gathering.

The Nebraska Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee took nearly eight hours of testimony Wednesday before adjourning without a vote on whether to advance a bill that would outlaw abortion at a point before many women know they’re pregnant.

Police in Nebraska say a pair of officers were wounded and a suspect was killed in a shootout during an attempted burglary Monday night.

Top Republican legislators in Kansas are focusing on helping conservative parents remove their children from public schools over what’s taught about gender and sexuality.

The presidential campaign landscape in Iowa is markedly different this year compared with four years ago.

The founder of an educational program for at-risk youth in Iowa has been released from the hospital after a shooting that wounded him and killed two students.

Authorities have identified the three young children and one adult who died in a rollover crash in northern Iowa that also injured the nine other passengers Friday morning.

Iowa Democrats chose a failed Congressional candidate to lead their state party as they grapple with a series of election losses and an effort from the national party to take away its first-in-the-nation status in the presidential race.

Authorities in Iowa have charged a second teenager with murder in the shooting deaths of two students at a Des Moines educational program.

North Dakota landowners testified for and against a carbon capture company’s use of eminent domain.

A sixth teenager pleaded guilty to charges in a 2022 shooting outside a Des Moines high school that left one person dead and two others injured.

Four people were killed and others were injured when a van they were in went out of control on a slick highway in northern Iowa.

Several years of pandemic restrictions and curriculum battles have emboldened longtime advocates of funneling public funds to private and religious schools in statehouses throughout the country.

A man who left gang life when he was younger and went on to help troubled young people is now in the hospital as a victim of what police say is the same sort of violence he was escaping.

A Democratic National Committee panel has voted to give New Hampshire and Georgia more time to make changes that would allow both to be part of a revamped group of five states leading off the party’s presidential primary starting next year.

The Des Moines police chief says a shooting at a educational program that left two students dead and the organization’s founder injured should be understood as “tragic, sad and pointless.”.

An 84-year-old Iowa man who was sentenced to life in prison last year for killing his stepson has died in prison.

A jury has convicted a 22-year-old Iowa man of killing his parents and his sister at their home in Cedar Rapids.

With egg prices more than doubling in the past year, calls are coming for an investigation into possible price gouging.

Any Iowa student who wants to attend a private school could use public money to pay for tuition or other expenses under a plan approved by the Legislature.

Police say that the killing of two students at an alternative education program for at-risk youth was a targeted shooting and that one man has been charged.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is preparing to outline what she’s likely to call a middle-of-the-road agenda for the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature.